This early work by Sherwood Anderson was originally published in 1920
and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography.
'Poor White' is a novel set in the deep south of the USA. Sherwood
Anderson was born in Camden, Ohio in 1876. He left school at fourteen,
and after working various jobs served in the Spanish-American War in
1898. In 1908, Anderson began writing short stories and novels. During
the twenties, Anderson published Poor White (1920), The Triumph of the
Egg (1921), Many Marriages (1923) and Horses and Men (1923). Although
considered to be a minor work by the critics, Anderson's most commercial
successful novel was Dark Laughter, published in 1925. Anderson died of
peritonitis in Panama in 1941, aged 64.